For she was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.
Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (Prioress's selective compassion)
c. 1387-1400
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"That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis."
Strange & Unusual"For he hadde yeve his lord, and that of grace, The pleyn felicitee of his richesse."
Humorous"And if that he forbede it, wolde he say, / 'A man may do no synne, but if he may / Nat touche a womman, for al his lyf.'"
Strange & Unusual"He was an outridere, that loved venerie; / A manly man, to been an abbot able."
Strange & Unusual"A good wyf was ther, of biside Bathe, But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe."
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